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Braden shed light on some of the implications of AI. For a while now I’ve been intuiting that AI may be narrowing our possibilities to a human centric view. In contrast, Nature Intelligence can help us reclaim the lost abilities of our ancestors as well as develop unimaginable human potentials. Braden took these ideas much further than I had.
In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of.
There are rare moments in time when we make choices that irreversibly change the world, and our lives, forever. Today is one of those moments.
Scientists, engineers and philosophers alike warn us that without a radical shift in our thinking, we are on track to be the last generation of pure humans that the world will know. Within a single generation we will devolve into a hybrid species…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Sophie Strand is a brilliant writer. She touched my heart and I cried while reading this very personal book that illuminates how we can still appreciate the beauty of nature even when our bodies cannot get well.
In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores-with searing insight and honesty-the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves.
At age sixteen Sophie Strand-bright, agile, fearless-is suddenly beset by unexplained, debilitating illness while on a family trip abroad. Her once vibrant life becomes a tangled miasma of medication, specialists, anaphylaxis, and seemingly never-ending attempts to explain what has gone so terribly wrong. And, for many years thereafter, Sophie's life becomes subsumed with ideas not of "health," but…